Impressionistic Horse Racing Painting

Impressionistic Horse Racing Painting

Impressionistic Horse Racing Painting Details

Large and in-charge impressionistic style horse racing painting that depicts a horse and jockey coming down the stretch. Created with powerful and confident brushwork and a playful palette of aqua, burgundy, yellows, blue, creamy whites and a pop of green. Loose painterly style that lends itself to the fast paced sport of horse racing.

The painting is created with heavy body acrylics, inks and colored pencil on archival paper, measures 30" x 22".

Artist Notes

It's derby season and the race horse artwork is front and center. The new edition to my medium lately is colored pencils. I've always enjoyed drawing and to incorporate the pencils allows me to get 'sketchy' with my subjects. My tendency is to paint bits and pieces of the subject in a somewhat accurate manner, leaving other areas untouched. Because I have these loosely painted, or untouched areas, I can now add colored pencil to capture the lost shapes. Thus creating a more recognizable subject. If all the subject is painted, there's really no opportunity to do this, right? Something to keep in mind as you view the piece.